Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the net-next tree

[Guenter Roeck]

On 07/18/2018 07:04 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the net-next tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) produced this warning:
>
> *
> * Restart config...
> *
> ....
>
> This is output by my "make allmodconfig" and only started after merging
> the net-next tree today.  It has continued for further merges/builds.
>
> I suspect commit
>
>    1323061a018a ("net: phy: sfp: Add HWMON support for module sensors")
>
> which added an "imply" clause.
I thought "imply" was better than "depends on HWMON || HWMON=n", but maybe
not. Is that a caveat when using "imply", and does it mean that "imply"
should better not be used ?

Guenter